There was a Blue Coat school in Greenwich from 1700, when Greenwich Girls’ Blue Coat School was founded, until August 2014, when Greenwich Council closed Blackheath Bluecoat School. The story of the schools incorporates St John’s National Church of England School, the first Church School in the Blackheath area opened in 1854 and the Blackheath & Kidbrooke National Church of England School, which opened in 1911. Blackheath Bluecoat School dates from 1959 until 2014. This site documents the some fascinating highlights of history of the schools.

The Blackheath Bluecoat building was used by St Mary Magdalene’s School as a temporary home for their secondary phase. They moved to a new building on Greenwich Peninsula in October 2018. Now in March 2019 the building is being demolished and new school will be built. The Leigh Academy Blackheath, which began in September 2018 in Victoria House, Shooters Hill Road, will move into the new building in 2020. The site has been leased for 250 years by the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education.